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Procedure for Qualifications and Composition of IRBs and OIRB
Under this procedure, each UAB IRB will meet the membership requirements of the federal regulations found at 45 CFR 46.107 and 21 CFR 56.107.
General Committee Requirements
The IRB must have a minimum of five members of varying backgrounds to promote full and adequate review of proposed and ongoing research activities under the IRB's jurisdiction.
IRB membership will include individuals with expertise, experience and diversity taking into consideration race, gender, cultural backgrounds and sensitivity to such issues as community attitudes to promote respect for its advice and counsel in safeguarding the rights and welfare of human subjects.
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The IRB may form standing or ad hoc subcommittees to enhance the efficiency of its operation. The IRB may invite consultants to assist in the review of complex issues and provide expertise beyond, or in addition to, that available on the IRB. Consultants may not vote with the IRB. (See POL014 policy on, PRO114 procedure for IRB use of consultants.)
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The IRB may include both regular and alternate members. The IRB roster will list the regular members and specify alternate(s) who are authorized to substitute for each regular member. Alternate members will have qualifications comparable to those of the regular member and will serve in the same representative capacity as the member for whom they substitute. Alternates may attend any IRB meeting, but their vote will only count when serving as the substitute for the regular member.
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The estate and mansion incorporating the Radisson Blu St. Helen's Hotel, Dublin fulfill Sir Thomas Cooley?s vision?a ?delightful and gracious? accommodation overlooking Dublin Bay. Today, plush accommodation, white-glove service and award-winning dining have earned this hotel in Dublin five stars. One of the most talked about developments in Dublin, created with no expense spared, to provide the utmost in luxury. It combines a beautiful hotel and gardens, with the very latest in modern design. (GW 07/2012)
The hotel is situated near the coast, and towards the suburb of Blackrock, on the Stillorgan road. With the private setting of a stately mansion, it is only a short walk from University College Dublin, about five kilometres south of city centre and 16 kilometres from Dublin International Airport via the Port Tunnel.
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Reflecting a history of warm hospitality, Deluxe Rooms are awash with sumptuous fabrics, down duvets, air conditioning, a large work desk, Free high-speed, wireless Internet access, an LCD television with in-house movie channels, mini bar and hair dryer. They are very proportioned and befitting of 5 star status.
The warm hospitality of the Radisson Blu St. Helen's Hotel extends within its wonderful restaurants. From Italian cuisine at talavera to afternoon tea at Orangerie Bar & Ballroom Lounge or Sunday lunch at Le Panto, guests can choose a Dublin restaurant just steps away. The hotel?s venues provide delightfully memorable dining in historic, lovely surroundings.
Originally an 18th century manor house and dating from 1750, the building has been restored, modernised and adapted, with a modern annexe. The fountain and forecourt are very elegant and impressive.
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Virginia Maksymowicz (b. 1952, New York City) is a sculptor who lives in Philadelphia. PA. In 1973, she received a B.A. in Fine Arts from Brooklyn College of the City University of New York, where she studied with Lucas Samaras. In 1977, she earned an M.F.A. in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, where she worked with Allan Kaprow, Eleanor Antin, and Newton and Helen Harrison. She has exhibited her work at the Michener Museum, the Franklin Furnace, Alternative Museum and Grey Gallery in New York City, as well as in college, university and nonprofit galleries throughout the U.S. and abroad. In 1984, she was a recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship in sculpture, and over the years has been honored with numerous other grants and awards. Her artwork has been reviewed in The New York Times, New York Newsday, The New Art Examiner, Sculpture Magazine and The Philadelphia Inquirer. Her series, The History of Art, appears on the cover of The Female Body, published by the University of Michigan Press. Her sculpture was recently featured in Amtrak's National magazine.
Maksymowicz has been a visiting professor of art at a variety of colleges and universities throughout the United States including Oberlin College in Ohio, the Minneapolis College of Art and Design and the Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia. She is currently Professor Emerita of Art at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
For more than 40 years, Maksymowicz has been developing a type of imagery that addresses cultural and political issues in a nontraditional, but understandable, form. The artworks she creates are "readable" on multiple levels (often using humor as a "hook"), containing esthetic and historical references familiar to trained artists as well as real-life issues of importance to nonartists.
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Penn State DuBois Associate Professor of Human Development and Family Studies (HDFS) Ben Park has received the George W. Atherton Award for Excellence in Teaching. Named for the seventh president of Penn State, the University presents the award each year to faculty members who have made substantial efforts to develop excellence in undergraduate teaching.
To be considered for the award, faculty members must have a full-time appointment at Penn State, a tenure-line appointment, undergraduate teaching as a primary responsibility and a minimum of three years undergraduate teaching experience at Penn State.
When discussing his philosophy on teaching, Park believes connecting with students, and showing them how their work will impact others, are keys to success. "Teaching to me involves sharing the joy of learning, and helping students come into contact with new knowledge, understanding and capabilities," he said. "My ultimate desire as a teacher is that my students are awakened by knowledge, to discover who they are and understand what they are capable of doing to improve their own lives and the world in which they live."
In addition to teaching at Penn State DuBois, Park is also the coordinator of the Gerontology Minor Program, the chair of the International Students and Programs Committee, and a member of the Diversity Team. He has conducted extensive research on human behavior, including self-destructive and suicidal behavior. Park's writing has been published in numerous academic publications, and he has given lectures on his research at multiple locations in the United State and Internationally.


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Fragrant evergreen forests, wind-swept prairies, steep mountains and deep lakes meet in Waterton Lakes National Park of Canada, where plants and animals from the humid Pacific Northwest mingle with those of the prairie and northern forests.
No protected area of similar size in the Rocky Mountains has as much ecological diversity as Waterton Lakes National Park. The park represents a small portion of the Crown of the Continent where ecosystems from north, south, east and west converge at the narrowest point in the Rocky Mountain chain.
Watersheds meet here too, supporting migration and dispersal of plants and animals. From Waterton, water flows north then east into the Saskatchewan River system, across the plains, and through the northern forests into Hudson's Bay.
Movement on the Lewis thrust fault gave rise to the park's abrupt meeting of mountains and prairie. Powerful forces shoved colourful rock formations, including Waterton's unique red and green rock, toward the sky. Since that time, the ancient rock has continually been eroded and moved from high elevations to be deposited on the plains below.
Waterton's mountains also intercept the weather from both the east and west, making it one of the wettest and windiest places in Alberta.
Unique and variable landforms and natural processes contribute to the park's biodiversity . Abundant plants and animals come together in a dynamic landscape shaped by fire, flooding and avalanches.
A mosaic of fascinating plant communities, including more than 1000 vascular plants, is found within the park. The warm, windswept habitats of Waterton allow many plants normally found only in prairie grasslands to thrive in a wide elevational range, from prairie to mountaintop.
Grasslands reach into mountain valleys, sweeping up their lower slopes. This meeting of plant communities is a key example of why Waterton supports abundant and highly visible wildlife.
The park has also become a meeting place of people and cultures.
There is a long history of Aboriginal hunting and gathering along Waterton's lakes, in and over its mountains. Present day hiking trails now follow historic routes over mountain passes. Ranchers and farmers now raise cattle and cultivate the surrounding land. Roads bring industry - oil and gas and logging - and visitors. Annual park visitation of over 400,000 people affects the park's landscape and wildlife.
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Ten years ago, I received my first advice from Neil Gorsuch. He was new to the Tenth Circuit. I was a young man working for one of his colleagues. When I said that I'd met the woman I would marry — she and I had dated for two months — a fellow clerk pronounced the prediction premature.
"Not so," said Judge Gorsuch. He recognized that his own wife Louise was the one almost immediately after he met her at Oxford.
He and I were right.
Every year, Judge Gorsuch and Judge Tymkovich, for whom I clerked, invite their past clerks to a ski trip on the slopes of Breckenridge, Colo. I don't ski, but I go for the conversation. Judge Gorsuch and I love the law, although we spend our time talking about books, family, and living the good life.
I am no longer too sheepish to tell him that a recent sci-fi novel has delayed my progress through The Education of Henry Adams. He is, after all, the judge who used Blackstone and The Hunger Games to explain the territorial limits of a magistrate's authority in United States v. Krueger (2015). It is my hope that our past conversations inspired his reference to dystopian Panem as an illustration of federalism, but I suspect that his daughters deserve the credit.
We discuss my father's health. It isn't good. I wonder if there is a good time for any of us to go. He doubts it.
We were both saddened when Justice Scalia died last year. It was the words that, selfishly, I would miss — how Scalia's pen enlivened the law for even his most ardent critics. What a loss, I thought.
Legal writing is populated with hacks, engineers, and artists — in descending order of prevalence. On a good day, I strive for engineer. But Justice Scalia was an artist. The country is lucky that it found the one judge to replace him who might reach the same rhetorical heights.
I have had the fortune to argue four cases before Judge Gorsuch, which is a career for most lawyers. I've lost before him as often as I've won. When you do lose, the beauty of a Gorsuch opinion is that you always know why you lost.
And he writes so clearly that a junior-high student knows why you lost, too.
Students would be wise to read his opinions. With a wry grin, they could explain to their teachers why "trading burps for laughs in gym class" shouldn't warrant a handcuffed trip to the juvenile detention center. A.M. v. Holmes (2016) (Gorsuch, dissenting).
Judge Gorsuch is a firm believer that a nation of the people, by the people, and for the people is best guaranteed by judicial fidelity to statutory and constitutional text. He relishes diagramming the sentences that Congress has passed, as he did in United States v. Rentz (2015) (Gorsuch, concurring). An old schoolmarm rests in his grammarian's soul.
But even for a westerner like myself, Judge Gorsuch is not perfect.
Despite his claims to be a literate fly fisher, he has yet to work Norman Maclean into an opinion. Perhaps his failing can be corrected with a few words from A River Runs through It, words that bring Judge Gorsuch's own prose to mind:
"All good things — trout as well as eternal salvation — come by grace and grace comes by art and art does not come easy."


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When construction began on the enormous CityCenter project in Las Vegas several years ago, there were many naysayers (yes you can include yours truly in that group) who wondered if the city could absorb the added supply of some four hotels and approximately 4,800 hotel rooms and ultimately see a return on this more than $9 billion investment.
Here we are closing in on two years since its opening in December of 2009 and the only real conclusion that can be drawn is that this entire project was a colossal mistake. The most recent development, or lack thereof to be more accurate, is project owner MGM Resorts International's recommendation to Clark County that CityCenter's planned quarter of a billion dollar Harmon Hotel and Spa be demolished because it is structurally unsound.
The non-gaming boutique hotel was originally slated to be 49 stories before being cut down to 25 after construction defects were discovered. However, even if MGM gets approval from the Country to demolish the hotel, it still has a fight on its hands in the courts as the lead contractor The Perini Building Company—which contends the building actually is safe at its scaled back size—is claiming design errors were at the root of the problem with the original plan.
Regardless of who is responsible for what and how seriously compromised the building may or may not be, it certainly appears on the surface that MGM is just trying to cut its losses and pull the plug on this costly project and it's hard to argue. In fact, the company has already publicly stated it is willing to forget about the some $279 million already invested in the Harmon.
To be candid, this project seems to have been doomed since the day the shovels hit the dirt in February of 2007. To start with, six workers were killed during the early construction phases of the project. Then, in response, in June of 2008 workers walked off the site in protest of the poor safety conditions. That was followed in early 2009 by Dubai World's decision to sue MGM for breach of contract and halt its financing of the project. The two joint partners ultimately ironed out an eleventh-hour deal to "save" the project and while many in Vegas were relieved you have to wonder now if they feel the same way.
Of the existing hotel properties, Aria, Mandarin Oriental and Vdara, the 4,000-room Aria seems to have garnered the most attention for its luxury appeal and cutting-edge technology. However, while occupancy at the hotel has steadily climbed from roughly 63 percent in early 2010 to close to 90 percent in the second quarter of 2011, rate is still hovering around the $200 mark, not nearly where ownership projected it to be when plans were drawn up.
But it is well documented that Las Vegas has been one of the hardest hit markets during the recession. Whether it's the so-called Obama effect or just part of the natural hotel cycle, demand in Vegas hasn't come back as quickly as some of the other top hotel markets and that's the unfortunate reality in 2011.
Over the years, Las Vegas has rolled the dice on some pretty big projects and usually come up a winner but when it comes to CityCenter it's looking more and more like the city is coming up snake eyes this time.


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The weekend started off with a 10k with my brother's girlfriend. She is currently training for the Long Beach Half Marathon and we talked about this race and decided to run it the weekend before! We ran the La Palma Fun Run 5k/10k and her friend Sarah joined us as well. It was great running weather that morning and though there was some registration hassles for myself that we had to deal with first thing, everything went off without any problems and it was a fun race. Congrats to her for finishing her first 10k. I know she's going to kick some serious butt in Long Beach this year! Since it was just a fun run, I didn't race and I'm glad I enjoyed it with them. It was a double loop for the 10k and my splits were:
mile 1 – 8:44. mile 2 – 8:41. mile 3 – 8:40. mile 4 – 8:30. mile 5 -8:37. mile 6 – 8:46. .2 mile – 2.43.
Pretty consistent and I felt really good the entire race. It was the perfect confidence booster after my first training round which was recently completed as well. Onto the next round which I'll be posting sometime this week hopefully!
My brother came out to support us all! We saw him and her dad twice since it was a loop, and since he has a really nice awesome camera he was able to get some cool pictures of us too!
We look like we are having so much fun! She was pretty focused on finishing, but we made it no problem and notice, the firetruck in the background. :) HA! When we started the second loop, I knew exactly where we had to go and it was great to run the same exact course that we had just ran. It gives you a sense of what is coming up. I don't know if I could do that for a full marathon though.
After the race we got Popsicles and orange slices. It was a fun small race. I say really small race because I ended up placing in my age group. I have to admit though, sometimes small races are some of the most fun races you can participate in. There were some uber patriotic people out for the race!
We were almost to the finish! It was a great morning for running. As many of you have been complaining about the weather, we have had some serious left over June gloom here in July! It has been drizzling every morning!
I finished in 54:26, which isn't close to my PR but I was glad to get out there and run with friends! I'm so excited for her to run Long Beach in October and I know she will do an awesome job!
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Cardinal Armand Gaétan Razafindratandra, Archbishop of Antananarivo (Madagscar), was born into a large, old-established family which had become Christian very early on.
His father was called Paul Razafindratandra and his mother, Joséphine Rasoanoro. He was born on 7 August 1925 in Ambohimalaza, a locality about 50 km from Antananarivo where his grandfather was governor.
He received his primary and secondary education at the parish school of Faravohitra directed by the Brothers of the Christian Schools of Andohalo. He went on to the minor seminary of Ambohipo and finally, to St Michael's College directed by the Jesuit Fathers, where he earned his diploma.
He studied philosophy for two years at Ambatoroka major seminary and did a three-year course at St Michael's College. He then returned to Ambatoroka to study theology.
After his ordination to the priesthood on 27 July 1954, Msgr. Sartre sent him to the Catholic Institute in Paris, to study at the Institute of Pastoral Catechesis and the Institute of Social Studies, opposite the chaplaincy for Malagasy students.
He returned to his country in 1956 and became director of catechetical teaching. He drafted manuals for all the classes aged 12 years and older. At the same time, he was responsible for the spiritual direction of the public and non-confessional private schools: 40 hours a week, all while he was Vicar at the cathedral.
He subsequently became parish priest in Ambohimitsimbina and assistant curate in Ambavahadimitafo. He organized entertainment for the children of needy families in summer camps run by young volunteers, which became occasions where he could demonstrate his own capacity for animation. For 10 years he directed the recently founded National Centre for Catechetical Formation.
His experience continued to be enriched by his posts as Rector of Faliarivo minor seminary and Director of the major seminary of Ambatoroka.
He was appointed Bishop of Mahajanga on 27 April 1978 and was ordained Bishop the following 2 July. He proclaimed the Gospel in all the parishes of his territory, almost always visiting them on foot. This was often the first time that their Bishop had visited them. The overall area of the Diocese is about 107,000 square kilometres.
He was involved in founding the Ecumenical Commission of Theology, and has been entrusted with drafting the statutes of the Council of Christian Churches, a movement that has played a particularly important role in the democratic development of the Malagasy nation since 1989.
Named Archbishop of Antananarivo on the 3rd February 1994, he was installed on the following 15 May. Thus he returned to his native Diocese, devoting himself to serving the people with painstaking care and hard work.
Created and proclaimed Cardinal by John Paul II in the consistory of 26 November 1994. Titular church Sts. Sylvester and Martin ai Monti.
From 1997 until December 2002, he served as President of the Episcopal Conference of Madagascar.


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Chinese architecture: Architectural Development: T'ang Dynasty and Thereafter
Through the T'ang and Sung dynasties, Chinese architecture retained the basic characteristics already developed in the Han, although there was a greater technical mastery and a tendency toward rich adornment and complexity of the system of bracketing. Though little survives of the wooden structures, our knowledge of their appearance comes from detailed representations in painted scrolls, especially by the Li school of artists in the T'ang period and their followers (see Chinese art ).
Extant monuments in Japan, profoundly influenced by Chinese architecture, also reflect the progress of Chinese building techniques. Examples are the 7th-century monastery of Horyu-ji and the 8th-century monastery of Toshodai-ji. In the Ming period the complex of courtyards, parks, and palaces became labyrinthian in scope. Little remains of the imperial palaces at Nanjing, the capital of the Ming dynasty until 1421.
- Introduction
- Structural Elements
- Early Architecture
- Architectural Development: T'ang Dynasty and Thereafter
- The Forbidden City
- The Pagoda
- The Chinese Ground Plan
- Modern Styles
- Bibliography
The Columbia Electronic Encyclopedia, 6th ed. Copyright © 2012, Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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So, in honour of today being my 5th year anniversary of joining Classic-Castle, I am officially releasing the first installments of what is intended to be a somewhat longer tale. I shall warn you now, though, that updates shall be irregular at best (namely whenever I feel like and have time--a rare combination).
Presenting, then, for lack of a better name: "Grandfather's Tale."
And thence on to Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
Chapter 6
Chapter 7
Chapter 8
Chapter 9
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14
Unfortunately, that's as far as I've made it yet. By the by, when I say "chapter" what I really mean is "run of thematic scenes shot at the same time"... which does sort of work out to be a conventional chapter.
EDIT: 3rd November, 2013
Chapter 15 is now online--see this post of this thread for deeplinks and news.